Chapter Summaries

Xueyu told Zhou Qingguang that Qingguang City would be merged into Dongxuan City, where he would become a District Chief rather than a Guard Team Commander. After Heifeng and Qingyu agreed to join Dongxuan City, Zhou Qingguang accepted the arrangement, and Xueyu led them to the City Lord's Mansion.

• Xueyu announced that Qingguang City's residents would be relocated to one district in Dongxuan City, with Zhou Qingguang as District Chief and Heifeng and Qingyu as Deputy District Chiefs.
• Zhou Qingguang asked to become a Dongxuan City Guard Team Commander, but Xueyu explained that he would need to swear a Dao Oath and meet strict membership, cultivation, and Contribution Point requirements.
• Xueyu told Zhou Qingguang that he was expected to join Dongxuan City and that he could resign as Qingguang City's City Lord if he refused.
• Heifeng and Qingyu agreed to join Dongxuan City and assist with relocating Qingguang City's residents.
• Zhou Qingguang agreed to join Dongxuan City as a District Chief, and Xueyu led the three of them to the City Lord's Mansion.

Sun Da broke through to the Purple Mansion Realm and invited his old friends to celebrate, expecting to boast and benefit from Li Yuan and Mu Qingqing. He learned that they had both already broken through and received a Permanent Cave Mansion, and the chapter ended with Li Yuan and Mu Qingqing deciding to sever ties with him.

• Sun Da broke through to the Purple Mansion Realm in his rented cave mansion and imagined outliving Li Yuan and Mu Qingqing while coveting their Permanent Cave Mansion.
• Sun Da invited Li Yuan, Mu Qingqing, Wang Xing, and Jiang Dongming to gather at Li Yuan and Mu Qingqing's cave mansion, but Jiang Dongming replied, "Scram!"
• Sun Da arrived at Li Yuan's cave mansion and learned that Li Yuan had also broken through and received a Permanent Cave Mansion.
• Sun Da discovered that Mu Qingqing had broken through to the Purple Mansion Realm too, and Li Yuan rebuked him when he blurted out his disbelief.
• Li Yuan told Sun Da that Wang Xing was in closed-door cultivation after selling his cave mansion to gather resources.
• Sun Da left feeling dejected, and Mu Qingqing told Li Yuan they should sever ties with him.

Ghostly Shadow arrived outside Dongxuan City seeking someone whose aura he carried, but Ye Qingxuan refused to help and challenged him when he made a threat. As Ghostly Shadow and Ye Qingxuan prepared to clash, Li Dachui appeared and Ghostly Shadow recognized him as the person he had been pursuing.

• Ghostly Shadow used a secret pupil art to search Dongxuan City, but Ye Qingxuan sensed his spying and called him out.
• Ghostly Shadow revealed himself above Dongxuan City's East Gate and demanded an audience with the City Lord, prompting the Dongxuan City Guard Team to confront him.
• Ye Qingxuan sent the guards back into the city and refused Ghostly Shadow's request to help find someone hiding there.
• Ghostly Shadow threatened Ye Qingxuan, who challenged him as both men prepared to use their power.
• Li Dachui emerged from a Cave Mansion and offered to make a deal with Ye Qingxuan, and Ghostly Shadow recognized him as the Artifact Venerable he had been seeking.

Ye Qingxuan discovered that Li Dachui was a late-stage Spirit Transmutation cultivator who wanted to sell an item coveted by Ghostly Shadow. After Ghostly Shadow attacked and fled Dongxuan City, Ye Qingxuan bought the item for three million top-grade spirit stones, while Li Dachui planned to buy a Sixth-Rank Cave Mansion.

• Ye Qingxuan probed Li Dachui’s cultivation and discovered he had reached the Spirit Transmutation Late Stage.
• Li Dachui offered to sell Ye Qingxuan an item, and Ghostly Shadow warned them that it was the Gui Sect’s lost foundation.
• Ghostly Shadow attacked and tried to seize the Wooden Box, but Ye Qingxuan crushed his Spiritual Sense and used Dongxuan City’s formation to repel his attack.
• Ghostly Shadow activated a Tier Seven Talisman and fled beyond the formation’s reach after it suppressed the talisman’s power.
• Ye Qingxuan inspected the Wooden Box and bought its contents from Li Dachui for three million top-grade spirit stones.
• Li Dachui decided to use the money to buy a Sixth-Rank Cave Mansion and settle in Dongxuan City.

Ye Qingxuan obtained the Death Curse Technique and learned why Ghostly Shadow of the Gui Sect had pursued its inheritance. Because Ye Qingxuan could sacrifice lifespan without consequence, he considered researching a prototype of the technique to help his clone hunt the Azure Devil Race.

• Li Dachui returned to his cave mansion with the three million Top-grade Spirit Stones, while Ghostly Shadow left for East Extremity State after losing the inheritance.
• Ye Qingxuan examined the jade slip and learned that the Death Curse Technique could reduce or kill cultivators’ lifespans, but required an equal sacrifice and had a long cooldown.
• Ye Qingxuan learned that the Gui Sect combined the Death Curse Technique with the Death Burial Scripture to share the cost of its use among cultivators.
• Ye Qingxuan realized the Eternal Turtle made sacrificing his lifespan harmless, leaving the technique’s cooldown as his main restriction.
• Ye Qingxuan wondered whether he could independently comprehend the technique’s Dao Patterns and condense a prototype for his clone to use against the Azure Devil Race.

Ye Qingxuan studied the Inheritance Jade Slip for the Minor Divine Ability: Death Curse Technique and comprehended two Dao Text Prototypes. He also created a powerful new Divine Ability Prototype by fusing Life, Death, and Karma Profound Meaning Rules.

• Ye Qingxuan sent the Inheritance Jade Slip to his main body in Qingxuan Cave Heaven and returned his consciousness from his External Incarnation.
• Ye Qingxuan immersed himself in studying the Death Curse Technique, forming a domain where life and death repeatedly reversed around him.
• Ye Qingxuan comprehended two related Dao Text Prototypes as incomplete Dao Patterns combined in his sea of consciousness.
• Ye Qingxuan condensed black-and-white Qi into a Taiji Diagram by fusing Life, Death, and Karma Profound Meaning Rules.
• Ye Qingxuan recognized that he had created a Divine Ability Prototype of his own.

After thirty years of cultivation, Ye Qingxuan comprehended the Death Profound Meaning Rules and formed prototypes of the Death Curse Technique and the Life and Death Diagram. He recalled Clone Nanxuan and Xixuan from the Demon Realm to rebuild and strengthen them for a safer hunt of early Spirit Transmutation Realm Azure Devil Race members.

• Ye Qingxuan named the new divine ability prototype the Life and Death Diagram, which could imprint a distant Life and Death Seal to extinguish or restore life force.
• Ye Qingxuan assessed the limits of both prototypes and decided the Death Curse Technique was not yet practical for his weaker clones to use in the Demon Realm.
• Ye Qingxuan concluded that strengthened clones could use the Life and Death Diagram to hunt early Spirit Transmutation Realm Azure Devil Race members, despite the risk of alerting their enemies.
• Ye Qingxuan summoned Clone Nanxuan and Xixuan out of the Demon Realm and had them return to the Qingxuan Cave Heaven.
• Ye Qingxuan took the clones’ storage rings, swept them into a valley piled with spirit stones, and began condensing them anew and raising their cultivation.

Ye Qingxuan fed Demon Realm resources and Azure Devil Race corpses into Qingxuan Cave Heaven’s formations, raising the blessed land to Fifth-grade Mid Stage. With Dongxuan City’s affairs temporarily settled, he prepared to transform his accumulated Demon Vein Sources into Spirit Vein Sources.

• Ye Qingxuan put Demon Realm ores, magic medicine, and Magic Treasures into the Tier 6 Peak Melting Array to help Qingxuan Cave Heaven analyze their rules.
• He fed the Azure Devil Race corpses from Nanxuan and Xixuan’s Storage Rings into the Purification Formation, greatly increasing the blessed land’s Origin Energy.
• Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land advanced from Fifth-grade Early Stage to Fifth-grade Mid Stage, improving the rate at which Ye Qingxuan’s Spirit Roots condensed.
• After the corpses were consumed, Ye Qingxuan took out the more than twelve hundred Demon Vein Sources he had accumulated and decided to transform them into Spirit Vein Sources.

Ye Qingxuan spent over ten years purifying Demon Vein Sources into Spirit Vein Sources for Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land. He then planned to use the lower-tier sources to expand the Blessed Cultivator Alliance and prepare it to support his future plans.

• Ye Qingxuan destroyed the fragile First-Tier Demon Vein Sources for Origin Energy and began carefully purifying the higher-tier sources.
• Ye Qingxuan purified the Second- through Fifth-Tier Demon Vein Sources over more than 3,700 days, while the highest-tier sources continued transforming under Spiritual Energy.
• Ye Qingxuan summoned the transformed First- and Second-Tier Spirit Vein Sources and decided not to integrate them into Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land.
• Ye Qingxuan planned to use the Spirit Vein Sources to develop the Blessed Cultivator Alliance, gain Blessed Cultivators' support, secure low-tier resources, and cultivate future allies for Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land.

Ye Qingxuan planned to develop the Blessed Cultivator Alliance as a foundation for advancing Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land. While waiting for purified vein sources to transform, he discovered that his Life and Death Diagram enlightenment had given the Blessed Land the power to alter the life laws of beings below the third tier, but he stopped experimenting to conserve its origin.

• Ye Qingxuan planned to cultivate Xuantian Sect's Blessed Cultivators through the Alliance, offering Spirit Vein Sources to build their trust and prepare them to merge their Blessed Lands into Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land in the future.
• Ye Qingxuan decided to wait for 34 Fourth-Tier Magic Vein Sources and 10 Fifth-Tier Magic Vein Sources to transform before adding the resulting Spirit Veins to Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land.
• Ye Qingxuan sensed that his comprehension of the Life and Death Diagram had changed the Blessed Land's Heaven and Earth Rules, allowing it to reset the life laws of Spirit Plants and living beings below the third tier by spending World Origin.
• Ye Qingxuan tested the new authority on more than a dozen Spirit Infusion Bees and found that extreme changes to their lifecycles or Life Forms required enormous amounts of World Origin.
• Ye Qingxuan stopped his experiments and prioritized accumulating origin, advancing Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land, and improving his strength.

Ye Qingxuan established a new reward system for the Blessed Cultivator Alliance, using Spirit Vein Sources and Spirit Herb Seeds to attract members and strengthen their loyalty. He left Zhu Dafu to promote the plan, which offered a way for Blessed Cultivators to obtain scarce resources through Alliance points.

• Ye Qingxuan buried the forty-four Spirit Vein Sources at the nodes of Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Qingxuan Blessed Land, then invited Zhu Dafu to meet him.
• Ye Qingxuan told Zhu Dafu he wanted to expand the Blessed Cultivator Alliance, and Zhu Dafu warned that its current services would not create a sense of belonging.
• Ye Qingxuan presented Spirit Vein Sources and proposed awarding points for selling Spirit Herbs and completing Alliance missions.
• Ye Qingxuan set point thresholds for purchasing First-Tier and Second-Tier Spirit Vein Sources, with prices paid in Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Ye Qingxuan added that Alliance points could also be exchanged for Spirit Herb Seeds below Tier 5 at a rate of one hundred points per Low-grade Spirit Stone.

Ye Qingxuan reorganized the Blessed Cultivator Alliance and instructed Zhu Dafu to expand it while keeping his identity as Alliance Leader hidden from ordinary Xuantian Sect cultivators. After Zhu Dafu departed to begin the work, Ye Qingxuan considered ways to strengthen the Alliance members’ sense of belonging.

• Ye Qingxuan decided not to offer East Extremity Domain spirit plants through the Blessed Cultivator Alliance, fearing the Xuantian Sect might investigate their origins.
• Ye Qingxuan told Zhu Dafu to recruit sect Blessed Cultivators and frequently promote the Alliance Leader while keeping Ye Qingxuan’s identity secret from middle- and low-level cultivators.
• Ye Qingxuan authorized Zhu Dafu to use Tianfu Shop resources for the Alliance and granted him twenty percent of its net profits through their channels.
• Ye Qingxuan kept the Spirit Vein Sources and asked Zhu Dafu to report on the Alliance’s expansion and return when a Blessed Cultivator wanted to exchange for one.
• After Zhu Dafu left, Ye Qingxuan considered establishing an independent communication system for the Alliance but set the idea aside because of sect restrictions and the cost.

Ye Qingxuan prepared to trade Sixth-grade Spirit Purifying Trees for Spirit Vein Sources and reviewed the growth of Qingxuan Cave Heaven, Dongxuan City, and his clones. The chapter left him waiting for Bai Zichun’s response while considering his clones’ recent hunts and the power of their Life and Death Diagram.

• Ye Qingxuan messaged Bai Zichun that he wanted to sell Spirit Purifying Trees in exchange for Spirit Vein Sources.
• Ye Qingxuan inspected the Sixth-grade Spirit Purifying Trees and Enlightenment Tea Tree, noting their benefits and the growth they had brought to Qingxuan Cave Heaven.
• Ye Qingxuan assessed Dongxuan City’s growing population and expected it to expand beyond Xingluo State within a hundred years.
• Ye Qingxuan reflected that his clones Nanxuan and Xixuan had killed five Early Spirit Transmutation Realm Azure Devil Race and obtained five Tier Six Magic Vein Sources.
• Ye Qingxuan determined that the clones’ Life and Death Diagram took about two to five seconds to kill an ordinary Early Spirit Transmutation Realm cultivator.

Ye Qingxuan’s Clone Mysterious Merchant observed the collapsing Xuanmu Realm, where most cultivators were trapped and Ye Qingshuang continued cultivating in the Mysterious Mall. After assessing Ye Qingshuang’s unusual state, he heard someone ask whether they would leave.

• Ye Qingxuan’s Clone Explorer continued developing the Starlight Cave Heaven Secret Realm, while the Mysterious Mall’s business dwindled as the Xuanmu Realm grew unstable.
• The realm’s energy tides and chaotic rules made travel deadly, trapping weaker cultivators and driving Spirit Transmutation Realm Cultivators to seek insights from the manifested Rule Fragments.
• Cultivators remaining in the Mysterious Mall stayed behind its protective Formation because they feared crossing the dangerous realm to reach Xuanmu City.
• Ye Qingshuang, still in the Early Golden Core Realm, chose to remain in the Mysterious Mall and resumed closed-door cultivation rather than risk fleeing.
• Ye Qingxuan’s Clone Mysterious Merchant withdrew his gaze after observing Ye Qingshuang, and someone asked the City Lord whether they were really not leaving.

Ye Qingxuan's Clone reassured Luo Tian that the Mysterious Mall's formation could withstand the Xuanmu Realm's status fall, while warning that the realm might not hold out much longer. In the Dihuan Realm, Zhu Dafu announced Ye Qingxuan's new Blessed Cultivator Alliance rules, and the members reacted with disbelief at the promise of exchanging for Spirit Vein Sources.

• Luo Tian again asked Ye Qingxuan's Clone whether they should leave the Xuanmu Realm, but Ye Qingxuan's Clone told him the mall's formation would protect those inside from the status fall.
• Luo Tian accepted the reassurance and left Shangxuan Pavilion to cultivate, while Ye Qingxuan's Clone watched the world beyond the city and said the Xuanmu Realm might soon fail.
• Zhu Dafu sent Ye Qingxuan's new Blessed Cultivator Alliance rules to the alliance's forty-three members and highlighted the Alliance Leader's role.
• The Blessed Cultivators questioned Zhu Dafu's claim that the alliance would offer Spirit Vein Sources for exchange.

Zhu Dafu used the promise of Spirit Vein Sources to convince the Blessed Cultivators in the Blessed Cultivator Alliance that they had a chance to improve their cultivation, then went to Ye Qingxuan for sources to show outsiders. Ye Qingxuan gave him ten Second-Tier and twenty First-Tier Spirit Vein Sources to use for exchanges.

• Zhu Dafu assured the Alliance’s Blessed Cultivators that they could exchange for Spirit Vein Sources and offered double compensation if the Alliance could not supply them.
• Zhu Dafu kept Ye Qingxuan’s identity as Alliance Leader secret while crediting the Leader with establishing the rules and providing the Spirit Vein Sources.
• All forty-three Blessed Cultivators began tending neglected herb gardens and planting Spirit Herbs.
• Zhu Dafu decided to recruit Blessed Cultivators outside the Alliance and returned to Qingxuan Blessed Land to request Spirit Vein Sources from Ye Qingxuan.
• Ye Qingxuan gave Zhu Dafu ten Second-Tier and twenty First-Tier Spirit Vein Sources, telling him to return for more after they were exchanged.

Ye Qingxuan set limits on recruiting Blessed Cultivators while Zhu Dafu visited an old associate to recruit him into the Blessed Cultivator Alliance. Zhu Dafu reunited with Lin Fan, a fellow founder of the Alliance, whose calm response hinted at their complicated history.

• Ye Qingxuan told Zhu Dafu to recruit only Blessed Cultivators below the third tier so Alliance growth would not hinder his own cultivation.
• Ye Qingxuan returned to Qingxuan Blessed Land after finding that Steward Bai Zichun had not replied.
• Zhu Dafu traveled to Lingfan Blessed Land and was admitted by its retainer.
• Zhu Dafu met Lin Fan, who joked that he had come to recruit him as cheap labor for the Blessed Cultivator Alliance again.

Zhu Dafu visited Lin Fan with ten Second-Tier Spirit Vein Sources and explained the Blessed Cultivator Alliance’s rules to persuade him to rejoin. Lin Fan’s hope for advancing Lingfan Blessed Land returned, and he asked who now led the Alliance.

• Lin Fan recalled how Zhu Dafu and Li Xuan had persuaded him to help establish the Blessed Cultivator Alliance, which collapsed after its funds ran dry.
• After the Alliance fell apart, Lin Fan spent much of his Second-tier Blessed Land’s foundation trying to restart it before giving up and losing hope in the Blessed Cultivation Path.
• Zhu Dafu brought ten Second-Tier Spirit Vein Sources to Lingfan Blessed Land, hoping to rekindle Lin Fan’s fighting spirit and persuade him to join the Alliance again.
• Lin Fan tried to seize the Spirit Vein Sources, but Zhu Dafu withdrew them and explained the Alliance’s rules and the conditions for obtaining them.
• Lin Fan decided the Spirit Vein Sources might help Lingfan Blessed Land advance, then asked who the current Blessed Cultivator Alliance Leader was.

Lin Fan rejoined the Blessed Cultivator Alliance after Zhu Dafu offered hope of obtaining Spirit Vein Sources to develop his Blessed Land. Zhu Dafu then traveled to recruit Fu Ding Tian, whose Fortune Blessed Land he approached before a Nascent Soul Realm Peak cultivator confronted him.

• Lin Fan realized Zhu Dafu’s Alliance Leader could provide Spirit Vein Sources and agreed to return to the Blessed Cultivator Alliance.
• Zhu Dafu left Lin Fan’s Lingfan Blessed Land and traveled through the Xuantian Mountain Range to recruit another Blessed Cultivator.
• Zhu Dafu arrived at the entrance node of Fu Ding Tian’s Fortune Blessed Land.
• A Nascent Soul Realm Peak figure appeared before Zhu Dafu and looked down on him because his cultivation was weaker.

Zhu Dafu visited Fu Ding Tian in the Xuantian Sect and learned how the Fu Family had stripped him of control over his Blessed Land. Seeing Fu Ding Tian’s despair, Zhu Dafu asked whether he wanted to break free from the Fu Family and take charge of his own land.

• A Fu Family member tried to turn Zhu Dafu away, but Zhu Dafu confronted him with the Xuantian Sect’s authority and entered Fortune Blessed Land.
• Zhu Dafu recalled how Fu Ding Tian and his mother had been rejected by the Fu Family, and how Fu Ding Tian had been sent to the sect after his mother died.
• The Fu Family forced Fu Ding Tian to sign away the Blessed Land’s output and assigned his Retainer Quotas to its own members, leaving him with little authority.
• Zhu Dafu found Fu Ding Tian thin and hollow-eyed, then asked if he wanted to escape the Fu Family’s control and take charge of his Blessed Land.